I'm not sure about that, but I've heard that during WWI a lot of escapped (Scottish) Highland POWs spoke to each other in the Gaelic. Any German troops overhearing (trained to investiage any English being spoken) didn't click. I thibk they just assumed that it was a weired local dialect.
During WW2 Highland POWs composed new Highalnd dances to pass the time; it took a lot of persuding that the sheet music they sent in letters-to-home didn't contain a fiendish code.
I seem to remeber hearing that the Americans used Navaho, not sure if that is a Urban Myth or not.
Myself,
I've always been partial to the
UN flag.
For those of you who can't remeber it,
it is a outline of the Earth, looking down from the North Pole, though the image has been stretched so that Antartica appears as a ring around the outside. Over the map, lines of longitude and latitude have been overlayed. Two bay-leaves garland the image.
If you take a serious amount of pictures, you should check these two out.
Terapin Mine which can read your camera's pictures through its USB port, capacity not stated. It's also a MP3 player, and runs Linux.
Or, Digital Wallet it has 20Gbyte storage, can rad SmartMedia card, etc, and can download to your PC using its USB (doesn't say if it can read your camera's USB, but I'd suspect it should).
They are both about the same size as a Gameboy classic.
BTW S@H have admited for a long time that they send out each unit 3 or 4 times, for double-checking, and because they aren't splitting/recieving the units from Arecibo fast enought. However they only use a small band of Arecibo's datastream, centered on the H-OH 'waterhole' (1420MHz +/- 1.25 MHz); this should improve the rang of frequencies covered.
There is talk of using
southern SERENDIP as a second antenna to get better sky coverage. They have another problem; S@H accounts for about 30% of Berkeley Uni's total out going bandwith, outside the Space Science Lab, the net admins aren't that happy about this. Unless they can get other SpaceScience Universities to share the load, they can't increase their userbase much more.
And you're right, we haven't benchmarked against GCC because it's not a contender on Win32.
This raises an interesting question, what are
DJGPP
(GCC for DOS) and Cygwin (GCC for MSWindows) like as compilers?
I've used DJGPP (a few years ago now) and it seemed to produce fast enough code for me, once you get used to a UNIX enviroment.
It came with a Borland-like deleopment enviroment, which easies the transision.
It is obvious that sudo should take your password, not root's.
If you know root's you can use su -l and do anything, totaly by-passing the point of sudo.
Like passwd, it needs to confirm that you are the logged on user, not someone else who has snuck in whilst you are getting some caffine.
MS didn't say how much was lost; I can think of one way that it happend.
If MS used daily backups, then when they restored, (obviously) all changes since the last backup will be lost.
To restore everything, they need to use transaction logging, basicaly all the indivdual changes made since the last backup are stored; When you need to restore, you pull the backup, then replay all the changes. This should restore it to the same state, or perhaps one transaction short.
For programming companies, 24hr backups will surfice; banks need to use rolling backups for thier finacial transactions.
Another way to do this is for xterm to catch
the file completion key (ESC-ESC or TAB),
verify that you are in a shell (not running
an editor), and then pop-up a file completion
dialog box.
IMHO, the only hard things about this is determing
if you are in a shell or not, and what the shell's
PWD is.
CS Miller.
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I'm not sure about that, but I've heard that during WWI a lot of escapped (Scottish) Highland POWs spoke to each other in the Gaelic. Any German troops overhearing (trained to investiage any English being spoken) didn't click. I thibk they just assumed that it was a weired local dialect. During WW2 Highland POWs composed new Highalnd dances to pass the time; it took a lot of persuding that the sheet music they sent in letters-to-home didn't contain a fiendish code.
I seem to remeber hearing that the Americans used Navaho, not sure if that is a Urban Myth or not.
<IRONY>I've always wondered about that.</IRONY>
Terapin Mine which can read your camera's pictures through its USB port, capacity not stated. It's also a MP3 player, and runs Linux.
Or, Digital Wallet it has 20Gbyte storage, can rad SmartMedia card, etc, and can download to your PC using its USB (doesn't say if it can read your camera's USB, but I'd suspect it should).
They are both about the same size as a Gameboy classic.
BTW S@H have admited for a long time that they send out each unit 3 or 4 times, for double-checking, and because they aren't splitting/recieving the units from Arecibo fast enought. However they only use a small band of Arecibo's datastream, centered on the H-OH 'waterhole' (1420MHz +/- 1.25 MHz); this should improve the rang of frequencies covered.
There is talk of using southern SERENDIP as a second antenna to get better sky coverage. They have another problem; S@H accounts for about 30% of Berkeley Uni's total out going bandwith, outside the Space Science Lab, the net admins aren't that happy about this. Unless they can get other SpaceScience Universities to share the load, they can't increase their userbase much more.
And you're right, we haven't benchmarked against GCC because it's not a contender on Win32.
This raises an interesting question, what are DJGPP (GCC for DOS) and Cygwin (GCC for MSWindows) like as compilers?
I've used DJGPP (a few years ago now) and it seemed to produce fast enough code for me, once you get used to a UNIX enviroment. It came with a Borland-like deleopment enviroment, which easies the transision.
It is obvious that sudo should take your password, not root's. If you know root's you can use su -l and do anything, totaly by-passing the point of sudo. Like passwd, it needs to confirm that you are the logged on user, not someone else who has snuck in whilst you are getting some caffine.
MS didn't say how much was lost; I can think of one way that it happend.
If MS used daily backups, then when they restored, (obviously) all changes since the last backup will be lost.
To restore everything, they need to use transaction logging, basicaly all the indivdual changes made since the last backup are stored; When you need to restore, you pull the backup, then replay all the changes. This should restore it to the same state, or perhaps one transaction short.
For programming companies, 24hr backups will surfice; banks need to use rolling backups for thier finacial transactions.
CS Miller
Another way to do this is for xterm to catch the file completion key (ESC-ESC or TAB), verify that you are in a shell (not running an editor), and then pop-up a file completion dialog box. IMHO, the only hard things about this is determing if you are in a shell or not, and what the shell's PWD is. CS Miller.